Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > One more reason not to have press-enter-to-continue's in maintainer
> > scripts, even if the information or question presented seems important
> > (some "crucial" change to a conffile or something like that): if you
> > have something to say, don't put press-enter after displaying the
> > information, but send the info to our FAQ maintainer for inclusion in
> > Debian FAQ.
>
> In my new version of the fvwm package (2.2-x), there have been radical
> changes. The postinst will do its best not to irrevocably retrieve
> the information it expects to currently be present, but it warns the
> installer that certain information may be lost, thus giving them a
> chance to rescue it first. I do not think that this is an
> unreasonable query, but better ways of handling it are always welcome.
Please ensure that the user is not bothered if he makes a new installation
such as a fresh slink/potato installation but only sees this message
when upgrading from a proper older version to the current one.
> A more questionable example: "Should I make this the default window
> manager?" We could always do so be default, but since the sysadmin
> may have already chosed the default window manager, they may not like
> this behaviour.
Something has to be done here. I'm not sure what. But being asked
everytime I install any wm, that sucks.
> And of course, dpkg asks questions when trying to upgrade modified
> conffiles.
Yes, but only if the local one has been modified but the former one
was the conffile from the package, so these questions are reasonable
unless dpkg gets a flag like '--force-overwrite-conffiles' or similar.
Regards,
Joey
